CONDITIONS FOR THE ANOINTING
“And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.” Acts 4:31 (NKJV)
The Anointing for signs and wonders was released on the Apostles as they gathered to pray. There is a price to pay for the Anointing to be operational in your life and ministry—for you to walk in the miraculous.
Being saved might be free, because Jesus Christ had paid the price for it, however, having the Anointing on your life to attest or back up your work in the ministry, you would have to pay the price needed for it.
The price needed to pay is a number of things, spiritual exercises, which you would have to be practicing regularly or consistently. Doing them would cause the Anointing of the Holy Spirit to be released on your life—abided or resided and abounded in your life:
a. Being a student of the Word of God.
b. Praying without ceasing, especially praying in tongues or praying in the language of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:2).
c. Fasting also would have to be added to your prayers. Jesus said to His Disciples when they did ask Him privately why they could not cast out a demon in a person brought to them when Jesus was not there (Matthew 17:14-16).
In answering them, Jesus Christ mentioned two things; He said their Unbelief or little faith had caused it, and that without fasting and praying such a demon cannot be cast out (Matthew 17:19-21).
Read: Matthew 17:14-21; 2 Corinthians 11:27
When you are committed to living by the principles of the Word of God, and prayers, and having communion with God through the Holy Spirit, you cannot but have the power of God or the Anointing resident in you.
One of the proofs of the Anointing on your life is:
a. You have the power to speak the Word of God with boldness (Acts 4:31).
b. The power for signs and wonders would be in your life being attested to by the people you are ministering to (Acts 4:33). You might not see any physical changes in your life so to say, but you would notice that people are coming to testify about what God has done in their lives because of your prayers or ministrations to them. With that, you get to know that the hand of God is already on your life, that is, a measure of His anointing has been deposited in you.
You would have to keep the anointing, and usually the anointing is kept or sustained or multiplied through the means which you received the anointing.
In other words, the spiritual exercises you had been doing that brought you to the current level of the anointing would have to be continued or perpetuated—you do not stop in doing them but rather increase in doing them. Peace.